<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Matthew Weber <<a href="mailto:palaeologos@gmail.com">palaeologos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/12/3 António Pedro Marques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:entonio@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:entonio@gmail.com">entonio@gmail.com</a></a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Lee Berman wrote (03-12-2010 18:24):<div class="im"><br>
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Antonio Pedro Marques: Well... yes: what makes him [Severian] so<br>
special?<br>
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An interesting question. Let's apply it to Jesus. Your answer requires<br>
information gleaned from History/The Bible, prayer, religious leaders<br>
etc. How would you answer the question if you were a contemporary of<br>
Jesus as a young man in his 20's?<br>
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For all I know, what's special about the man Jesus are his teachings. That's the key element I find missing from the 'Conciliator'.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Really? What did he say that his antecedents didn't?<br><br>Christianity considers Jesus' acts of much higher importance than his teachings--especially the redemptive act of sacrifice on the cross (or, if you'd rather, the redemptive fact of his incarnation). It's liberal Protestantism in its post-Enlightenment instantiation which has given us this fixation on teachings. Which isn't surprising, since once you deny Christ's divinity, you don't really have much else left.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Matt +</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>Wow, do Protestants not believe in the divinity of Christ? I didn't know that.<div><br></div><div>I'm of the weird sort that believes in Christ /Logos without really believing in Jesus of Nazareth.</div><div><br></div><div>~witz<br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></div></div></body></html>